Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce welcomed the crew home in a packed event at Shed 10 by pledging Government support for Team NZ's next America's Cup challenge. "While you didn't achieve everything you set out to, you did win the hearts of this nation,'' he said to the thousands of fans. "Not just of our nation, but the hearts of the USA and everyone else who watched this contest."

Emirates Team New Zealand were treated to a heroes welcome today, as Auckland city turn on the kiwi pride at Shed 10. Skipper Dean Barker said "today more than any other time, I think...I can honestly say this is the proudest I've ever been to be a New Zealander"

For the past decades, the Fred Hollows Foundation NZ has helped restore the sight of thousands of people in the Pacific. During the Foundation's recent Outreach programme in Gizo, Solomon Islands, foundation-trained doctors operated over one hundred needlessly blind patients in five days. nzherald.co.nz was able to bear witness to the amazing transformation of 70-year-old Luke who has been blind for the past 20 years.

Prime Minister John Key has mounted a scathing attack on the failings of the United Nations and the permanent members of the Security Council, saying it gets bogged down in arcane detail and had become hostage to the interests of the most powerful.

Grant Dalton and Dean Barker reflect upon when they realised that the America's Cup was lost to Oracle and why they were beaten after such a promising start to the finals.

The America's Cup remains in the USA, Oracle Team USA have sportingly praised the fantastic effort and challenge from Dean Barker and Team NZ.

"It's very hard to swallow." The first words from losing Emirates Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker, coupled with his ashen face, showed the pain of top level international sport. Barker and Grant Dalton reflect on the last three years and today's disappointment. courtesy America's Cup.

Team NZ can still win the Cup. They still need the same recipe - and are still perfectly capable of following it: predict the weather perfectly, mode the boat perfectly, win the start, be first to the bottom mark, cover the opposition's every move, sail perfectly. That's a lot of "perfectlys" but this is a team capable of perfection. But that one race is proving chillingly elusive.

Team NZ is fighting for its very existence after this morning's disastrous losses to Oracle, speaking at the post-race press conference skipper Dean Barker vows 'We will fight to the end'.

Conrad Smith and Israel Dagg are cautious of the power of the Pumas at home, while Asst coach Ian Foster warns of a physical battle and a much improved Argentinian side.

Team NZ still need that one precious race win, while Oracle now need three to successfully defend the America's Cup. Skippers Barker and Spithill are both confident that the America's Cup will be theirs.

Typhoon Usagi, the largest typhoon of 2013, passed Hong Kong on September 22nd causing disruptions to flights to and from Hong Kong airport, which were cancelled on Sunday evening as high winds lashed the island.

Shocking CCTV footage supplied by police in Dunedin shows the brutal moment when a man smashes a stolen pet rabbit against a wall before tossing its lifeless body over a fence. If anyone recognises the offender they are urged to contact Dunedin Police on 471-4800 or anonymously on the Crimestoppers line (0800 555 111).

The All Blacks have arrived in Argentina keen to keep their unbeaten record against the Pumas intact, and also see the tourist sights before facing the stern challenge from the home team.

OTUSA have now won the last four races to be sailed in a row. Team NZ were leading the last three races to be called off. Oracle's downwind and reaching speed became starkly clear. They have a faster boat downwind and, as there are two downwind legs, their advantage by a couple of knots is significant.

At the post race press conference, it was an audible murmur of disapproval that accompanied the NZ journalist question comparing past All Black failures at World Cups to a possible Team NZ loss at the America's Cup.

The megayacht "A" that slipped into Auckland was at the time the biggest to ever berth in New Zealand, with interior space almost 15 times the size of an average house. The distinctive vessel is owned by Russian Andrey Melnichenko, who has a fortune estimated to be $17.2 billion, and is in Auckland for maintenance ahead of cruising in summer. Video courtesy Greg Bowker.

Kiwis have been close but not quite won the America's cup and kiwis and supporters of New Zealand decided to camp out at the Moa Bar at the finish line and make themselves at home, get a few clothes clean, play some back yard cricket, have a kip on the beds. courtesy 90secendsTV.

Dexter Fletcher directs Sunshine on Leith; a jubilant, heartfelt musical about the power of home, the hearth, family and love. It is the tale of one tight-knit family, and the three couples bound to it, as they experience the joys and heartache that punctuate all relationships. And they do it all while singing to the euphoric music of The Proclaimers.

This amazing GoPro cam footage captured some amazing scenes as it was placed upon an eagle flying through Mer de Glace glacier and Montenvers Railway on northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps.

Two Kiwi activists have been arrested by Russian authorities who boarded a Greenpeace ship protesting against Gazprom's Arctic oil drilling operations. The group released a video of two activists scaling the side of Prirazlomnaya platform, and of security forces threatening them with firearms. courtesy Greenpeace.

Dean Barker and Jimmy Spithill square off in the post race media session re changing the America's Cup rules and the momentum of an Oracle come back. There will be no panic in the Kiwi camp - they still hold a 8-2 lead in the series and have immense confidence in their boat. But that will be of little consolation to impatient New Zealand fans eager to kick off celebrations.

This video, "Kia Kaha San Francisco", is presented as a gift from a Nation Born of Sailors to the Best Sailors in the World; all four crews that have taken part in the Louis Vuitton Challengers Series and the current America's Cup Challenge... and to the people of San Francisco. courtesy YouTube/virtualeyepresenter and Ian Taylor. An unbroken line of design, engineering, technology, seamanship and navigation from our Maori ancestors who sailed the Pacific to Aotearoa to this hi tech flying machine called Aotearoa, representing us so superbly on the waters off San Francisco Bay.

A female trainee in the United States Air Force was tasered as part of her training and took the pain out on her colleague. When the shock was delivered the trainee grabbed the groin of one of the men holding her. Ouch. Credit: Bobbi Moreland/NewsPoint.

Three vs one trying to wake up a dog; an elephant, a human and a rooster. It wasn't very successful as you can see. Still this baby elephant was very curious and determined to play with this doggy. Credit: Zac Guénette/NewsPoint

So it won't be today. So we have the pleasure and the pain of one race to go. ETNZ skipper Dean Barker and Jimmy Spithill from Oracle Team USA react after race eleven of the America's Cup won by Team NZ, and look forward to perhaps the final day of racing Friday.

Just one more race to go and already the Kiwis on site in San Francisco are talking about where to hold the next defence in NZ and whether the NZ government should stump up funding to help our Team NZ again. courtesy 90secondsTV.

At the Burberry London Fashion Week show, One Direction star Harry Styles talks about how he gets dressed in the morning, while Sienna Miller reveals how it was to work on a Burberry campaign with her fiance Tom Sturridge.

The bout everyone had been waiting for began just before 2pm with a lengthy handshake, the Prime Minister making a rare crossing of Parliament's chamber to the Opposition benches to congratulate David Cunliffe on his new job before returning to the Government trenches with every intention of demolishing yet another Labour leader. It ended at 2.16pm with the new Leader of the Opposition resuming his seat, perhaps a little bruised, but otherwise intact, having failed to do likewise to Key.

Kiwi entrepreneurs and expats are everywhere around the America's cup, it's an amazing mix of social, networking, and global leadership that makes an electric entrepreneurial environment where connections and ideas are forged. courtesy 90secondsTV.